A strange scene has recently occurred in Weifang City, Shandong Province, mainland China. (Picture / Retrieved from Weibo)
In Weifang City, Shandong Province, a strange scene recently occurred. A tricycle suddenly appeared at the gate of a certain community, specially collecting urine from pregnant women. In this regard, the recycling personnel revealed that the recycling price of local pregnant women’s urine is regarding 12 yuan per kilogram (regarding NT$53), and in some places, it is recycled by giving away laundry detergent. The recycled pregnant women’s urine is mainly used for recycling. In pregnancy test strips, medicines can also be made.
“Jimu News” reported that the video showed that there were multiple plastic buckets placed on the tricycle, and a woman wearing a mask collected the yellow liquid in the plastic bag. The recycling staff said that the recycling price of pregnant women’s urine is regarding 12 yuan per kilogram, depending on the quality of the urine, and they have special testing equipment, “We are the first primary processing enterprise, and the collected pregnant women’s urine will be collected in the future. It is provided to specialized manufacturers, mainly used for pregnancy test strips, extracting the components in urine to make abortion pills, ovulation hormones, etc.”
In fact, by searching online, you can find a lot of information regarding the recycling of pregnant women’s urine, some are paying for cash recycling, and some are giving away daily products such as laundry detergent and toilet paper. The woman Yuhong (pseudonym) is an expectant mother in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. She also got the news from other mothers half a month ago and began to provide urine of pregnant women.
Yuhong revealed, “The staff will give you a toilet, a small refrigerator, and a black plastic bag. The toilet will be given to the user later, and the refrigerator will be recycled. In addition, a monthly payment of 200 yuan will be given.” She mentioned that weekly There will be staff come to the door to collect it once, four times a month, but because she is approaching the third trimester of pregnancy, the recycling staff said that she can only provide a month’s worth of pregnant women’s urine.
In this regard, a professional obstetrician and gynecologist said that the urine of pregnant women contains human chorionic gonadotropin and progesterone, which can be used for pharmaceuticals, and the development of early pregnancy test strips or sex hormones and other products. In clinical practice, chorionic gonadotropin injection is often used for infertility, luteal insufficiency and other diseases, while progesterone is used to make medicines to prevent miscarriage.
